The Mission Takes the Lead in Bike ‘Corrals’

Bike “corrals,” which replace existing car parking spaces with multiple bike racks, are cropping up city-wide. But in the Mission, they’re burning rubber.

Since 2010, when the San Francisco Superior Court fully lifted an injunction on new bike infrastructure, San Francisco businesses have consistently pushed to convert nearby car parking to bicycle parking.

City-wide, bike corrals started really going up in 2010, and boomed in 2011 when the city built 15. Today, 26 corrals dot the city map. While the largest corral near the San Francisco Public Library’s main branch has racks for 38 bikes, corrals more commonly have space for around 10.